Michael Casey joins the Participatory Commons Wednesday 6pm-7pm PST

Hello all! I just chatted with Michael Casey, co-author of our text and my co-author for the LJ column “The Transparent Library.” He agreed to meet with us during our Wednesday night Participatory Commons hours. He’ll be in the room from 6pm to 7pm. If you’d like to chat with him, please join us. I will also record the session and post it for those who cannot attend. If you have course-related questions, I’ll be in the room for the first hour standing by. If you’d like to leave a text question that I can ask him, comment here (and watch for this coming week’s module for more about transparency).

A couple questions for Michael Casey:
1) Chapter 5 of “Library 2.0″ has some inspiring methods that have been used to draw in users, such as Rock the Shelves at Gwinnett County Public Library and examples of blogs from Darien Library. Are you aware of any Library 2.0 methods that are being used to draw in ESL users at academic or public libraries?
2) Faculty outreach at academic libraries is another topic that interests me. I would be interested in anything you would have to say about this.

About Michael

Michael received his PhD in information science in 2007 from the University of North Texas via an IMLS fellowship. Prior to joining the the faculty at San José State University in 2011, he taught at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University.

His recent publications include the co-authored article "The Impact and Effect of Learning 2.0 Programs in Australian Academic Libraries" for the New Review of Academic Librarianship; the chapter "What's Next? Tracking Tech Trends" for Reference Reborn: Breathing New Life into Public Services Librarianship, and the co-authored chapter "Friended, Tweeted, Posted: Social Sharing for Project and Knowledge Management," in Managing Knowledge in Projects. He currently writes the monthly column "Office Hours" in Library Journal exploring issues, ideas and emerging trends in library and information science education.

Stephens has spoken about emerging technologies, innovation, and libraries to audiences in over 26 states and in five countries, including a research tour of Australia and presentations for the US embassies in Germany and Turkey.

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